Starlin Tatis

A short introduction about the artist. ‎ Starlin Tatis is a self-taught photographer and creative director based in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, who works at the intersection of editorial portraiture and fashion photography. Active since 201...

A short introduction about the artist. ‎ Starlin Tatis is a self-taught photographer and creative director based in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, who works at the intersection of editorial portraiture and fashion photography. Active since 2010, his work is defined by a constant focus on presence: the meaningful silence between subject and lens that transforms a photograph into something closer to a document of intimacy than a mere record of appearance. Without formal academic training, Tatis built his visual language through an unwavering commitment to the craft itself, developing a practice rooted in formal precision and psychological depth that rejects spectacle in favor of stillness. His aesthetic draws from both the traditions of artistic portraiture and the codes of contemporary fashion, shaped entirely by the discipline of constant observation and creation. His photographs have been exhibited internationally in prestigious venues such as CONTEXT Art Miami and Art Basel Miami Beach, two of the most prominent platforms for contemporary art in the Americas. Other exhibitions include the TRImarchi Graphic Design Festival (Mar del Plata, Argentina) and the Espacio Falso Gallery (Santiago, Chile). Her work has been published in Inkult Magazine (Mexico City), BALAM Magazine (Buenos Aires), Bass Culture Islands, Oh! Magazine, and Pandora Magazine, and selected for PhotoVogue, Vogue Italia's platform dedicated to emerging photography talent worldwide. Her photographs are part of private collections on several continents. Among her ongoing projects, "Unforgettable" stands out as a pivotal work, an intimate archival series created in collaboration with acclaimed Dominican actor Juan Fernández. It explores memory, identity, and subtlety, using the power of black and white and fashion to capture history in pixels. She intends to make this project available to the public as archival rag prints. For Tatis, photography is not so much a career choice as it is a way of life. Art, in her own words, saves her life every day. This conviction is clearly reflected in his work, with images that feel more necessary than commissioned, more found than produced. Tatis produces his fine art editions on archival papers with the highest standards of color fidelity and black and white, in collaboration with specialized printers in the United States. These specialized workshops work with the finest materials for reproducing pieces on paper, using processes such as the legendary and acclaimed Gelatin Silver or C-Type printing. A wide variety of other formats and papers are also available. His work is available as limited-edition fine art prints.